Course title: GenderingCulture/Gendering EasternEuropewiththe FocusonPolandPurpose of the course: the course aims at presenting, discussing and analyzing the most crucial gender, feminist and women’s studies’ issues in contemporary Eastern Europe. Main areas of investigations are: literature, cinema and art, and cultural media debates. Poland is the main focus of the course with the comparative references to other Eastern European countries. The emphasis is given to Eastern Europe after 1989 with the references to the developments in the Interwar time, the memory of WWII, and communism.

If the inner truth of gender is a fabrication and if a true gender is a fantasy instituted and inscribed on the surface of bodies, then it seems that genders can be neither true nor false, but are only produced as the truth effects of a discourse of stable identity.​Gender Trouble...